John Surtees won the very first Can-Am championship race OTD at St Jovite, on his way to the 1966 title. In today's Great Read, 'Il Grande John' remembers that incredible season
Would Enzo Ferrari have objected to John Surtees racing a factory Lola T70? Most certainly. Did he mind if his talisman used exactly the same car but instead entered it under his own name? Of course not. The modern equivalent – Sebastian Vettel driving a self-run AMG Mercedes in an event at the Nordschleife – is sadly unthinkable, but the world was a different place in 1965.
The seeds were sown two years beforehand. "I was doing all the development testing for Ferrari's sports-prototypes as well as racing in F1," Surtees says. "At the end of 1963 Ferrari mentioned the possibility of taking a car to America..."
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